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Monday 10 March 2014
FPCB makers Zhen Ding, Flexium to benefit from planned launch of large-size iPhones
Flexible PCB suppliers Zhen Ding Technology Holding and Flexium Interconnect are poised for strong shipment growth in 2014 amid market speculations indicating that Apple is likely...
Monday 10 March 2014
ARM to see pricing advantages against Intel in micro-server industry
With AMD ready to release an ARM-based server platform in the fourth quarter, sources from server players expect micro-server products based on the platform to have advantages in...
Monday 10 March 2014
ZTE to deepen cooperation with Taiwan-based PCB suppliers
ZTE will further strengthen its cooperation with Taiwan-based PCB suppliers as it is deepening its deployment in the high-end smartphone segment, according to Lu Qianhao, ZTE's head...
Monday 10 March 2014
Digitimes Research: China smartphone vendors rely on international brands for overseas expansion
China-based smartphone players' shipments to markets outside of China currently account for 20% of their total volume. As demand from the local market - which has been their main...
Monday 10 March 2014
SPIL to perform better than expected in 1Q14
IC testing and packaging company Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) is expected to perform better than its guidance set for the first quarter of 2014 as clients are building...
Monday 10 March 2014
More handset makers joining WP camp
Microsoft has successfully lured a number of China- and India-based handset vendors to join the Windows Phone (WP) camp, which may help ramp up the ratio of the WP8 phones in the...
Monday 10 March 2014
Synnex Technology February revenues down on month, up on year
Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International on March 7 reported consolidated revenues of NT$23.15 billion (US$764 million) for February,...
Friday 7 March 2014
HP, Dell in talks with server makers about cooperation
Server vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell, in view of the unfavorable situation created by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and others directly ordering data center equipment...
Friday 7 March 2014
KYEC February sales up 7%
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), which provides chip probing and final test services for LCD driver ICs and chip components used in mobile devices, has announced consolidated sales for...
Friday 7 March 2014
Tablet growth to slow as purchases in mature markets begin to level off, says IDC
The total tablet market, inclusive of both tablets and 2-in-1 devices, is forecast to grow 19.4% in 2014, down from a growth rate of 51.6% in 2013, according to IDC. IDC reduced the...
Thursday 6 March 2014
Foxconn to land 90 million iPhone 6 orders, says paper
Foxconn Electronics is expected to land orders for 90 million units of the iPhone 6 from Apple in 2014, the Chinese-language Commercial Times cited data from Citigroup Global...
Thursday 6 March 2014
Taiwan ODMs seek server talent from brand vendors
Taiwan-based server ODMs have been headhunting talent from first-tier server brand vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell recently as their orders from large Internet players...
Thursday 6 March 2014
Flytech extends to telematics
Taiwan-based POS (point of sale/service) system and peripheral maker Flytech Technology has extended to telematics by acquiring a 60% stake in neoVideo Technology, a Taiwan-based...
Wednesday 5 March 2014
iPhone 5c inventories estimated at over 3 million units, says upstream supply chain
Due to below-expectations sales performance, recent market rumors have indicated that iPhone 5c shipments drastically deceased at the end of 2013 and inventory volumes have built...
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Global LTE subscriptions to exceed 2 billion in 2019, driven by LTE-Advanced, says ABI Research
Worldwide LTE-related subscriptions reached 229.7 million in 2013, and will continually grow at a CAGR of 43.6% between 2013-2019, to exceed two billion. By the end of 2013, LTE-TDD...